Register for upcoming FDA Learn courses focused on improving the working lives of civil servants by following the links below.
FDA members can register for FDA Learn courses focused on improving the working lives of civil servants via the links below. If you are not already a member, join today to access FDA Learn, the FDA’s learning and development programme bespoke to civil servants’ needs.
Friday 11 September, 11am – 12pm
This event focuses primarily on personal objective setting and provides an insight into understanding the benefits of setting clear objectives as part of the performance management system; identifying strategies to overcome the challenges of setting objectives; understanding how to use the SMART framework, as well as being able to write and encourage others to write effective task and behaviour objectives within a performance management framework.
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Wednesday 16 September, 11am – 12:15pm
Balancing professional demands with caring roles can feel overwhelming. This webinar explores practical tools for boundary setting, energy management, and sustainable workload planning. Designed for people navigating dual responsibilities, it offers supportive strategies to maintain wellbeing, communicate needs, and create realistic rhythms that work for you and your organisation.
Thursday 17 September, 11am – 12pm
This engaging one-hour session will equip managers with a clear understanding of the distinctions between leadership and management within the context of Bullying, Harassment, Discrimination, and Victimisation (BHDV), helping to promote consistency, fairness, and legal compliance throughout the employee lifecycle.
Tuesday 22 September, 11am – 12pm
Explore who you are when you lead at your best: the strengths, values, qualities and energy that shape your leadership. Through powerful coaching questions and reflection, consider how your presence, self-belief and inner authority influence both who you are being and what you are doing as a leader.
Wednesday 23 September, 1pm – 2pm
This session will take a look at some basic assertiveness techniques that can help you get your point across more effectively and say what you really want to say in a calm and effective manner. We will link that up with a look at personal resilience and some suggestions about how to become more resilient in a way that helps you feel stronger and more confident.
Friday 25 September, 11am – 12:30pm
This strengths-based session focuses on recognising and harnessing the unique skills that neurodivergent people bring. It offers practical ideas for role design, feedback and collaboration so that individuals and teams can benefit from diverse ways of thinking.
Tuesday 29 September, 2pm – 3pm
This webinar looks at how you can use a functional review to strengthen the delivery capability of a specific area of an organisation. The term ‘functional review’ is frequently used to describe a review of the ability of an institution to function, i.e., to meet objectives, to achieve results, to produce outputs, to define and solve problems. If an institution can perform tasks but is not meeting its objectives and achieving results, it can be argued that it is not fully functioning.
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